-There was a thing saying you might run for mayor.
-For New York. No, New York, not South Bend.
-No, for mayor of New York City? -Yeah, I know,
I'm going to start with New York.
Listen, no.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's not -- Thank you, I appreciate that.
-Standing ovation. -Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. [ Cheering continues ]
-Please. -They were ready for it.
It's unbelievable.
-Thank you. Please, sit down.
Please sit down. -Here he is.
-Please sit. -John Mulaney!
-Please. -Mayor Mulaney!
-Earlier this evening, I called Mayor de Blasio
and I conceded because I got zero votes, and --
[ Laughter ]
No, I don't know why I got this in my head.
I know why. I had, like, too much --
I had like a month where I wasn't doing anything.
-Yeah. -So...
I was walking around New York.
I was getting so angry about things.
You know, there was -- so I said --
I came home and I said, "I'm going to run for mayor,"
to my wife, you know? -Yeah.
-And she said, "Okay, but you have to think about stuff
for all five boroughs.
It can't just be things on our block."
And I was like, "All right."
But then, I just -- look.
No matter who the Mayor of New York is, we hate him,
and then, by the time he goes, we're like,
"That's the mayor. We love him," you know.
Like Bloomberg, we hated. He'd be on --
He'd come out and like cover the city in beige carpeting,
and then, be like, "Shoes off."
And we'd be like, "Ah!"
And then, by the time he left, we were like,
"Hey, it's Mayor Bloomberg."
And now we hate him again. It's a cycle.
-Yeah. -So de Blasio is low, right?
-Yeah. -Remember --
Were you at the Paul Simon concert when de Blasio got up?
-Yeah, we were there together. -Yeah.
Remember, they're like, "Ladies and gentlemen,
Mayor de Blasio."
"Boo!" [ Laughter ]
-It was louder than like an encore for like "Graceland."
-Yeah. -They're like, "Whoo!"
-It was like Vince McMahon level theater.
Like, "Boo!"
-Yeah, that was crazy.
-De Blasio walks out with his stupid sideburns and --
[ Laughter ]
But -- but I -- here's -- Okay. Here's --
Look, I know I won't be good as mayor.
Okay? I know that. But here's my thing.
I'm going to get rid of Uber and Lyft,
and if you don't like it,
you can get rid of me in two years.
[ Laughter ]
But you can't -- there's a bus lane,
and then there's a bike lane,
and then there's one million new Ubers,
and then there's 10 billion new Lyfts.
-Yeah. -And it's just you can't do it.
And I have a whole commercial laid out.
-Really? -Yeah.
I mean, I haven't shot it, but you know,
you can imagine it.
You can imagine it. I'm imagining it.
So here's the commercial. All right.
It's not fun, but it's -- this is just a good idea.
[ Laughter ]
So it's an ambulance -- Shh, this is serious.
So it's an ambulance, and it's going
up Sixth Avenue at 3:00 P.M.
It's an ambulance. Sirens are going, you know?
You feel the tension, right? -What time of the day?
-3:00 P.M. -Yeah.
It goes, it's 3:00 P.M.
It's not rush hour. It's not lunchtime.
And the streets are jammed.
And then I'll have an actor that looks like de Blasio
ride by on a bicycle, right? [ Laughter ]
And then it'll say,
"Now imagine someone you love is in this ambulance."
And then it goes, "boom."
And it says, "Bill de Blasio said he'd fix everything
in New York," which he didn't. He didn't say that.
But... [ Laughter ]
-You can't put words in his mouth.
-Oh, you can do that. -You can't do that.
-I'm not going to put "quotes." I'll say --
I'll say he said something like -- okay.
Bill de Blasio was like,
"I'm going to fix everything in New York,"
right? -You're safe.
-I'm in safe territory. -My lawyer says you're safe.
My lawyer says you're safe, yeah.
-Good, yeah. And then it will just say,
"John Mulaney as Mayor." -Wow, that's pretty good.
-I think when you say -- yeah. -That's a good, that's a...
[ Cheers and applause ] ...memorable commercial.
And it hits a nerve.
-I think it's, like, mean-spirited.
I don't like that I thought of it, but once I thought of it,
I thought, like, "That's a good idea."
I -- I like Mayor de Blasio.
I have had run-ins with him that I found awkward.
I was hosting that Museum of Natural History benefit
that Mr. Lorne Michaels does.
-Our boss. -Yeah.
The producer of "Saturday Night Live."
-And "The Tonight Show" as well.
-And "The Tonight Show," yeah, -That's right.
He's our producer.
He produces everything in this building.
-Yeah, that's right, yeah.
He's a good TV producer.
-He's fantastic. -Yeah, he's got hits.
So he has this benefit at the Natural History museum.
Have you ever hosted it, where you kind of go,
"Welcome, everybody." -Of course.
-"This is -- Look at all the animals."
Because it's like the zoo, but they're dead, you know.
[ Laughter ] -It's a museum.
Yeah, it's a museum.
-It's a museum of animal bodies
and what they would look like next to fake trees and stuff.
But it's a nice museum. It's a great place.
So I had --
I worked all day -- I worked for like three days
on all these jokes, and most of them
were de Blasio jokes. -Yeah.
-Because it's a New York audience, and I, you know,
I mean, I opened -- I opened bad right away
because I was like, "This is great.
I saw there's an elephant here. So finally for one night,
the elephant in the room for you guys is not Jeffrey Epstein,"
and -- yeah, right. [ Audience ohs ]
Just like you.
Hey, no, but just like you,
they were upset right away. [ Applause ]
-Yeah. -And I said, but --
[ Laughter ]
-It's a tough room. -"But like Jeffrey Epstein,
this elephant was murdered."
I did a second part of the joke. [ Audience ohs ]
I know, right. Just -- Yeah, exactly.
-But it's also -- But this is a good room.
That room, I will say, is a little tough.
-You mean the museum with the highest ceiling in the world
and all the richest people in the world
staring at you?
It looks like an event the Joker would crash into it.
[ Laughter ] And...
-You should have opened with that.
You should have opened with that one.
You should have opened with that.
-Wait, I got to get another chance.
So then, I just did these introductory remarks,
two of which you just heard, which were terrible jokes.
So I sit down at the table, and then, someone runs up
and says, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a special guest here.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has dropped by the benefit."
Now this was called a black tie event.
Now that means that you wear a tuxedo if you're a man.
Now I'm not saying -- You're not a good per--
I'm not saying you're a better person if you're in a tuxedo,
but Bill de Blasio walks up in a light blue suit
with a bright red tie, like a clown.
And... [ Laughter ]
And they go, "Bill de Blasio." And this is a nice event,
and people go, "Boo!"
And I hear one person go, "Hiss!"
-Wow.
Wow. Bringing back the hiss.
-So then, Mayor de Blasio gets up.
And no, he was not invited.
He had just left his presidential campaign
because he heard it was a lock
and he didn't want the pressure to get to him.
So... [ Laughter ]
He gets up, and he's like, "Hi, it's me, the mayor."
You know, he had to remind everyone when he was mayor
because he had run for president.
He's like, "I'm the mayor, this is a great museum
because they allow anyone in here.
Anyone of any sexual orientation."
And everyone was like, "Yeah, that's every museum.
Like, there's..." [ Laughter ]
The only barrier to entry is a suggested donation,
which no one does.
No one's keeping anyone out of a museum.
-No. -So then he said --
So I, by the way, have in my pocket a page of jokes
that are all about de Blasio.
My next seven minutes was just going to be de Blasio jokes.
So then de Blasio says -- and it's all --
"This event is run by the great Lorne Michaels,
an important person in New York,
even though he's not from New York."
And I was like, "Oh, man." [ Hissing ]
Like, okay, yeah, right? -Getting hisses right now.
-Getting hissed. -Someone's hissing over there.
-So I get back -- So I turn to Lorne and I go,
"I have a page of de Blasio jokes."
And Lorne goes, "Do them."
[ Laughter ]
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-Dude.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-That New York thing -- that New York thing,
like, when he said that, I was like, "Oh!"
And I know Lorne is from Canada. I know it.
And he talks about it. He'll go, "I'm from Canada," you know?
But if he looked me in the eye and he went,
"I'm from New York, right?" I'd be like,
"Yeah, yeah, you're from New York."
-He's one of the most New York people
of all time. -I know.